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Colombian beer helping fight coca 'demonization' - La Prensa Latina Media

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Fabiola Pi�acue is selling a range of products, including a coca-derived beer. She started selling coca for 1,000 pesos ($0.20 at the current exchange rate) at the Pontifical Javierian University. The company's product catalog initially consisted of beer and a soft drink.

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Colombian beer helping fight coca 'demonization' - La Prensa Latina Media

By Laia Mataix Gomez Bogota, Jan 26 (EFE).- A member of the Nasa indigenous community in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca, where coca fields spread over thousands of hectares, is fighting back against the “demonization” of that ancient crop by selling a range of products, including a coca-derived beer. Although associated primarily with cocaine in the eyes of the United States and its allied governments in the region, coca also has…

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